§ 5 · Curriculum Vitæ
Menra Wedwang Romial
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
IMT ATLANTIQUE · INRIA STACK · LS2N — NANTES, FRANCE
Research Interests
Energy-aware cloud orchestration · Kubernetes internals · power capping and RAPL
· control theory applied to SLA management · reproducible experimentation on
distributed testbeds.
Education
2023 — present
Ph.D. in Computer Science
IMT Atlantique · Inria STACK · LS2N — Nantes, FR
Dissertation: Energy-aware orchestration in Kubernetes clusters: scheduling, power
capping, and SLA management. Supervisors: A. Lebre, J. Pastor. Expected defence: 2026.
2021 — 2023
M.Sc. in Distributed Systems
Nantes Université · Mention Très Bien
Thesis: Finding the wasted watts — an empirical study of idle overhead on shared
Kubernetes clusters.
2018 — 2021
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Université de Lille
Appointments
2024 — 2026
Teaching Assistant
IMT Atlantique · Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Cloud
Summer 2022
Research Intern
OVHcloud R&D · Roubaix, FR
Measured steady-state energy of containerised CI/CD runners. Output: an internal report and one upset engineer.
Summer 2021
Engineering Intern
Scaleway · Paris, FR
Awards & Grants
2025
Best Student Paper, runner-up — UCC ’25
For “Energy-proportional scheduling via adaptive RAPL budgets”
2023
ADEME Green IT doctoral grant
Three-year funded PhD fellowship
2023
Grid’5000 compute allocation
40 000 CPU·h / year
Service
2025 — 2026
Volunteer organiser
UCC & BDCAT 2025 · Nantes
2024 — present
Reviewer
ACM TOCS (shadow PC) · HotCarbon · CompAS
Skills & Tooling
Systems & Cloud
- Kubernetes (operator, scheduler ext.)
- Linux kernel, cgroups v2, eBPF
- Intel RAPL · powercap
- Grid’5000
Languages
- Go · Python · C
- TypeScript (dashboards)
- Bash, when forced
Natural
- French — native
- English — professional (C1)
- German — reading